BioNano plant user forum 2017 - June 21–22, 2017

Progress in plant genome research is vital to understanding natural evolution and feeding the world. The size and highly repetitive nature of plant genomes make building quality reference genomes a challenge for short-read sequencing technologies. The combination of Bionano maps with sequencing data improves assembly accuracy and quality while reducing the need for deep sequencing coverage. This improved contiguity significantly lowers costs associated with assembling reference genomes.